Chess terminology

Gambit - accidental loss of a pawn in the openingDevelopment - deploying your pieces to squares on which they get kicked around and lose several tempiFirst board - weak player who is used as a sacrifical lamb to allow everyone else to have at least some chance of winningFlight square - escape square for your king, which later turns out to be coveredGood bishop - bishop which is rendered useless by the opponent's pawnsJ'adoube - A loophole in the touch-move ruleNovelty - a move which has been played before, but was discarded as poorOutpost - A fantastic-looking square for a knight, from which it serves no purpose and gets locked out of the gameSound sacrifice - Giving up material for an attack which succeeds because the opponent was unable to find the correct defence

These are off the top of my head, and it would be good to turn this into a collaborative work!

To Madhacker and Billwall.. You made me smile with your chess terminologies and their definitions. I wish we have a lot of chessplayers like your kind. Intelligence with sense of humor.

I am a Filipino but now living in Canada. I am a little bit sad that Canadians are not so keen with Chess. Hockey and Football are their favorites. With their everchanging extreme weather, I don't blame them though. Thank you to both of you and may your tribe increase.